WWII Review

"But this trial has shown that under the stress of a national crisis, ordinary men–even able and extraordinary men–can delude [fool] themselves into the commission of crimes and atrocities so vast and heinous [terrible] that they beggar [shock] the imagination."–Judgment at Nuremberg was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials?

This quotation is referring to the

• actions taken against Jews and others in the Holocaust

• dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

• Allied bombing of German cities during World War II

• German invasion of Poland

What was the big event that started WWII?

• invasion of Austria
• invasion of Poland
• invasion of Hungary
• invasion of Czechoslovakia 

_____ forced Germany to disarm and repay war debts.

• Treaty of Versailles
• Atlantic Charter
• Appeasement
• Manhattan Project

What were the names of the two cities that were destroyed by the atomic bombs?

• Pearl Harbor and Hawaii 
• Nagasaki and Hiroshima
• France and Italy
• Washington D.C and New York City 

The mass murder of about 12 million people, including six million Jews, died or were killed in concentration camps was called ________.

• The Holocaust 
• World War 2
• World War 1
• D Day 

Hitler and Stalin agree not to fight each other in the _____.

• Treaty of Versailles

• Cold War

• Nazi-Soviet Pact

• Bolshevik Revolution

This agreement allowed the Soviet Union and Hitler to partition Poland into "spheres of influence" leading to the Nazi invasion of Poland.

• German–Soviet Nonaggression Pact

• Treaty of Brest Litovsk

• Anschluss

• Appeasement Pact

Which of these was the turning point of the war in Pacific?

• Iwo Jima
• Pearl Harbor
• Midway
• Stalingrad

Why was the Battle of Stalingrad important to the Allies?

• Began the liberation of Europe

• Turning point of the war in Pacific

• Turning point of the war in the Eastern Front of Europe

• It was the last battle of the war

Which statement accurately summarizes the impact of the Battle of Stalingrad?

• Germany defeated the Soviet Union and continued taking over more territory.

• The Soviet Union surrendered and signed a peace agreement with Germany.

• Germany lost the battle, stopping its advance through the Soviet Union and costing Germany many important resources.